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December 1, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

John Powell Solo Expanded

2018's Solo: A Star Wars Story sharply divided fans and Star Wars aficionados. The film, chronicling the early years of Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Lando Calrissian, endured a bumpy - and very public - road to theatres that saw original directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (The Lego Movie, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) replaced by veteran Ron Howard. But while reviews were mixed on the film, one crucial element consistently earned well-deserved recognition: John Powell's score. In recent

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Soundtracks Tags: John Powell, John Williams

October 30, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

The Karate Kid Part II

October is thick with not only great archival horror soundtracks, but favorites from all genres! Let's dive in to eight great film score reissues from this past month. Intrada rolled out titles from three iconic composers. This week sees an expansion of the late James Horner's score to The Land Before Time (1988). The second collaboration between animator Don Bluth and producer Steven Spielberg (this time with George Lucas in tow) told the story of a group of juvenile dinosaurs roaming the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Bill Conti, Dave Davies, Diana Ross, Harry Manfredini, James Horner, Jerry Goldsmith, John Carpenter, John Powell, John Williams

September 22, 2020 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Buddy Holly Story

September was an unusually bountiful month for archival soundtracks, and we're here to break it all down. Varese Goes West, Revisits Buddy Holly The latest title in Varese Sarabande's CD Club was an expansion of Elmer Bernstein's heroic score to the 1999 blockbuster Wild Wild West. Though the film somewhat infamously broke co-star Will Smith's ironclad grip on the July 4 weekend box office after star turns in Independence Day (1996) and Men In Black (1997), the weird cult charm of this

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Buddy Holly, Elmer Bernstein, James Horner, John Powell, Little Richard, Michael Kamen

April 12, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Easybeats Good Friday

Vampires! Dragons! Keanu Reeves! Plus two revered pop-rock classics: Varese Sarabande has a little bit of everything on its five-title Record Store Day slate arriving this Saturday, April 16, in finer independent stores everywhere. Record Store Day may take place on a Saturday, but thanks to The Easybeats, it's a Good Friday. Varese has the first-ever U.S. release of the Australian band's debut U.K. album originally issued on United Artists Records.  Good Friday was issued in the U.S. as

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: John Powell, Record Store Day, Robert Cobert, The Easybeats, The Moody Blues

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